Resultados para "Lucien" en Terror

Following the accidental drowning of her sister, 16-year-old Nif and her family move to a small village on the Welsh borders to escape their grief. But rural seclusion doesn't bring any relief. As her family unravels, Nif begins to put together her own form of witchcraft, collecting talismans from the sun-starved land. That is, until she meets Mally, a teen boy who takes a keen interest in her and has his own secret rites to divulge.

Professor Hector Rhoades thinks he knows the truth about the mysterious businesswoman Luci Inferi. Deciding to confront her with this "truth", he proceeds to confront her. Shortly thereafter, Hector discovers that all of his life-long preconceptions about life, the universe, friendship, and more aren't anything like he thought they were.

Osceno, truculento, eretico, provocatorio fino all'eccesso. Lucio Fulci è ricordato come il padre dell'horror all’italiana degli anni settanta e ottanta. Il maestro dell'orrore grondante sangue e violenza, il "terrorista dei generi": per un’intera carriera tentò di dettarne le regole, facendoli deflagrare ogni volta. "Le lune nere" sono i racconti autografi che hanno dato materia narrativa al cinema visionario del regista romano.

In an England where monsters have spilled into the world out of myth, only London is magically protected from the monstrous threat. The University runs the city, allowing family of graduate Hunters, Healers, Scholars, and Artificers to live behind the wards.

In un'Inghilterra invasa dai teras, mostri spietati dalle sembianze mitologiche, soltanto Londra rimane un luogo sicuro. La città, protetta magicamente da una frontiera che i teras non possono oltrepassare, è governata dall'Università, un'élite di studiosi e guerrieri che ha il compito di classificare queste creature ibride e annientarle. Tutti ambiscono a vivere all'interno delle mura, ma si tratta di un privilegio riservato solamente alle famiglie degli studenti che hanno superato le selezioni e l'addestramento dell'Università, seguendo una delle quattro specializzazioni.

Die Hochkultur der Zwerge ist untergegangen. Zurück blieben nur erbärmliche Kreaturen, die ihre Seelenpein mit Pilzbier zu betäuben versuchen. Den Sinn für die Wirklichkeit gänzlich verloren, kennen die Zwerge nur einen Schuldigen für den Untergang ihres Reiches: die Menschen! Bei einem Unfall wird der Zwerg Fargil vom Nachschub an Pilzbier abgeschnitten. Zwangsweise ausgenüchtert erkennt er den Verfall seines Volkes, und will ihm zu neuer Größe verhelfen. Aber auch unter den Menschen gibt es jene, die nicht hinnehmen wollen, ständig von den Zwergen bedroht zu werden.

Les heures de Roc-du-Cap sont comptées. Damian Ragellan reçoit la plus haute distinction militaire de l’armée. Il devient Arcaporal à dix-sept ans. Du jamais vu. Personne ne sait d’où provient son talent exceptionnel pour le combat. Pas même lui. Mais ça n’a plus d’importance. Dans une semaine, la cité qu’il a juré de protéger pourrait disparaître à jamais. Une maladie mortelle décime la population à une vitesse effarante. Les infectés connaissent leur destin : des larmes noires déchireront leur visage jusqu’aux os.

Listeners know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here. All the novellas in this collection revolve around the theme of love gone wrong - horribly, shockingly wrong.

This book features four short stories of horror, occult, and the paranormal.

On October 15 everyone in the world vanished. Well, almost everyone. As the survivors race to fight The Darkness, the past is revealed, and some will finally learn what happened on October 15. Can they survive The Darkness? Can they make their way back home? All will be revealed in Yesterday's Gone: Season Three!

Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness - with bravery and compassion - for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones. Emma is 12, a perfectly normal girl, in a perfectly normal home. With a perfectly normal father...who comes into her bedroom every night in the hours before dawn. Emma will do anything to escape.

Three generations have passed since the whispers of demons first spread across the lips of man. Since that first fateful night above Oakenfall, a kingdom has fallen, a god has died, and the streets have begun to pile with bodies, but nothing that Oakenfall has experienced so far can prepare it for what will befall it as Lucien returns from his travels. What started as a routine investigation of a haunted village, an easy task for a Mage Hunter like Lucien, sends him on a voyage that will see him set against old enemies of Oakenfall.

The haunting new folk horror novel from Lucie McKnight Hardy 'All my fears have vanished, and I realise now that my dreams were not nightmares but a sign of what was to come, how this will end. An inevitability.' Things were looking up for Astrid Aspden and her partner, Kit, until their house...

This book contains foul language and fouler descriptions of life as a zombie. It will offend most anyone, so proceed with caution or not at all. And be forewarned: This is not a zombie book. This is a different sort of tale. It is a story about the unfortunate, about those who did not get away. It is a human story at its rotten heart. It is the reason we can't stop obsessing about these creatures, in whom we see all too much of ourselves.

Three years ago, Lord Cassia disappeared in the midst of war, on a mission entrusted to him by the king. Since then, a devastating plague has swept the land, leaving countless dead and the kingdom forever altered. Having survived a rotting prison cell and a merciless illness, Cas, now 18, wants only to return to his home in the mountains and forget past horrors. But home is not what he remembers. His castle has become a refuge for the royal court. And they have brought their enemies with them.

After the suicide of his uncle, Lucas Heathfield inherits Stoneborough Manor in Oxfordshire. He imagines it as a place where he and his tight-knit group of friends can spend time away from London. But from the beginning, the house changes everything. It begins to have a strange effect on Lucas and he becomes haunted by the death of his uncle, obsessed by ciné films of his uncle's friends at Stoneborough 30 years earlier. Within the claustrophobic confines of the house over a hot, decadent summer, secrets slide out of the past and sexual tensions escalate, shattering the group's friendship and changing their lives irrevocably.

Lucien has always been able to spin a bad situation to his advantage. From his childhood on the dangerous streets of Shadycreek Run to his years living off the grid and learning blood magic from the Claret Orders, the charismatic blood hunter will find a way to get the upper hand. When Lucien is on a job in the frozen wastelands of Eiselcross with his fellow mercenaries, a rough-and-tumble crew called the Tombtakers, fate leads him to a mysterious journal in the ruins of an ancient city. The book speaks of the Somnovem, nine beings who can grant Lucien power beyond imagining.

In the form of a half-empty IV bag once connected to Randall's son, they have found a means that might be used to fight the evil that has infected the world.

Thirteen months after the events in the first book of the series, Randall Morgan and his family still live a life of uncertainty. A life in which they–like the other scattered groups of survivors–must be constantly on guard.

Author Randall Morgan is on his way home after spending 14 days in the secluded cabin where he always goes to write the endings of his books. However, when he arrives in his hometown, East Alin, he is greeted by a disturbing sight.